Q4 2020 AIM Listed Companies INDEX Published

24 Nov 2020 | Index | Accessibility | Public sector

Adam Turner
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At Sitemorse we published our 2020 Q4 AIM INDEX this week. The INDEX has been published quarterly since 2015 and ranks the websites of nearly 700 companies according to their digital compliance score and is based on a combination of online performance measures including adherence to accessibility standards, privacy regulation and level of content failure.

Our Q4 2020 INDEX was compiled following over 235 million tests checks and measures across over 720,000 URLs.

Congratulations go to Ceres Power for taking first place. Also, congratulations are due to Conygar Investment Company for being the most improved, rising a meteoric 706 places, the highest climber ever across any of the Sitemorse INDEXes!

Those companies scoring highly provide confidence to investors and the public that they not only take their compliance responsibilities seriously but that they also have the systems and processes in place to adhere to the increasingly demanding regulatory environment.

If we focus purely on Accessibility, Frontier IP Group, Mission and Tracsis should be congratulated for taking the lead in this sector. Summarising accessibility scores we see that:

  • Only 1% of companies scored 7 or higher.
  • 78% scored 4 or less.
  • 25% actually scored zero

Comparing results with last quarter, 48 companies improved their accessibility score from the last quarter, while 160 scored lower. 16 companies failed all of the WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA tests on every single page.

Making a website accessible comes under the Equalities Act 2000. We’ve already seen that in the US that lawsuits alleging web sites discriminating against people with disabilities are increasingly common and there is no reason that the UK won’t face the similar lawsuits.

The Top Ten AIM Websites

  1. Ceres Power
  2. Sunrise Resources
  3. Conygar Investment Company Plc
  4. President Energy
  5. Marlowe
  6. Bluerock Diamonds
  7. Jaywing
  8. Northbridge Industrial Services
  9. Longboat Energy
  10. Sylvania Platinum

 Five Most Improved

  • Conygar Investment Company Plc
  • Marshall Motor Holdings
  • Adept Technology Group
  • Minoan Group
  • Eve Sleep

 The full 2020 Q4 AIM results can be found here: Sitemorse AIM INDEX